A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high.

It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available.

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.

Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.